Binding Financial Agreements: What to Expect
You’ve decided that a Financial Agreement is right for you. So what happens next?
Can the trustee of your discretionary ‘family’ trust make a distribution to itself?
The short answer is that it depends on whether the trustee first falls within the class of potential beneficiaries, and then whether the trustee is specifically excluded from benefiting.
Dealing with employees as part of a business sale
Dealing with employees and their entitlements as part of a business sale or acquisition is not straight-forward. There are plenty of traps and tricks for the uninitiated. Find out what you need to know.
Making a Claim for Executor’s Commission in SA
Taking on the role of Executor of a deceased estate can be daunting, time consuming and more difficult than you anticipated!
Who gets to choose who goes on your board?
Most people think the directors of their company are appointed by a majority of shareholders. But often this is not the case. Discover the full picture.
Employers guide to managing sexual harassment in the workplace
Sexual harassment can cost a business dearly in terms of lost productivity, staff turnover, recruitment costs, legal fees and court awarded damages. Two recent court cases have shown us that courts are now prepared to make increasingly large awards to compensate victims of sexual harassment. Here we give you the tools to identify sexual harassment in the workplace, and provide the steps you need to take to prevent it.